I'm pretty sure humans ate snakes more often than the other way around...
I'm pretty sure the evolutionary time period in question was far before apes, much less hominids, came into the picture. We carry around a lot of baggage that isn't relevant to modern humans because they were relevant to our ancestors, and there hasn't been enough evolutionary advantage in losing them. Goose bumps, for example, have a role in helping furred animals stay warm, but they do nothing for us, despite them triggering when we're cold.
What software company is still actively supporting products from 2003?
Most of the ones I've worked for support 10+ years old versions with regular patches and updates. Our software wasn't marketed towards the consumer market, and all of these companies relied on support contracts for their revenue, but it's worth noting that the entire software industry isn't video games and internet apps.
for example, child molesters and rapists and murderers get out of prison and commit their crimes again. thousands of times.
Do you have statistics to back that up, or are you just consulting your gut on that one?
putting down a monster is not barbaric, it is the merciful thing to do
The ability to consider another human being as less than yourself is the first step in being willing to commit violence or any other number of crimes against them. You thirst for the blood of those you consider evil is little different from that of the very people you condemn.
Strange how much effort we put into trying to relieve the guilt of those carrying out the murderous orders of the state.
(Note: I am anti-death penalty. The following is not support for the death penalty.)
We, as a society, have decided that the death penalty serves an important societal purpose -- that is it a just act. Why would we choose to punish the people who are carrying out what we, as a society, have decided is justice?
Law enforcement is made up of people too, and if the burden of taking a life in a justified manner can be lightened, it should. To do otherwise is to promote PTSD and a life of misery among people who are just trying to protect the public. This is true of executioners, just as it is true of soldiers and of police thrust into dangerous situations.
Every safety expert will tell you that the NUMBER ONE cause of whole classes of accidents is poor illumination.
No they won't. According to the US's NHTSA, the top cause of accidents is inattention. Nearly 41% of accidents involved distraction within 3 seconds of the accident. 71% of accidents occur during the day. Night driving in dark, unlit conditions accounts for only 12% of accidents.
So, unless "whole classes of accidents" means "just the ones with poor illumination," your statement is unlikely to be meaningfully true.
LEDs are worse, vastly worse. They are NOT bright. They get VERY hot if they are high powered. And the light they put out is of the very WORST kind, when the needs of the Human eye are taken into account. The Human eye HATES light composed from extremely narrow bandwidths.
Citation needed.
And when Team Soros/Blair/.Obama tell you...
Yeah, yeah. And tell us what the lizard jews running Zurich want the Illuminati to do next.
There is also a social cost that is not calculable to allowing them to live, possibly escape and kill again, or just kill again in prison.
Which must also be balanced against the social cost of killing innocent people who were wrongfully convicted.
It's also worth noting that the homicide rate in prison is much lower than in the general populace. The prison murder rate is about 3 in 100,000 per year, and the general population is at about 4.7 in 100,000 per year. You are 20X safer from murder in prison than you are in Flint, Michigan (64.9 per 100,000).
(Numbers in the article from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.)
One of these sets of numbers is smaller than the other. Determing which is left as an exercise for the reader.
One of these sets of numbers is missing a whole host of related costs: i.e. the lengthy appeals process that almost all prisoners subject to the death penalty attempt, staff costs, amortized costs of fixed capital like the electric chair itself.
This is why the last time that someone was killed by firing squad in the US, the execution alone cost $165,000 -- well over the mere $5 you quote. Utah estimates that it costs them $1.6 million more to execute a prisoner than to hold them for life without parole.
Not only do you drastically underestimate the cost of the death penalty, but you also drastically overestimate the cost of life without parole (LWOP). California spends an average of $47,000 per prisoner/year. Texas is even cheaper at about $17,000 per prisoner. Neither is anywhere near $200,000.
I lifer is a danger to every guard and inmate they come into contact with. The number of guards and other inmates killed by lifers far outweigh the few innocent suspects killed by the system.
And I of course believe that you have statistics to back this up. Surely the lack of a good link was merely an oversight and not evidence that you were talking completely out of your rear end.
If you don't mind, would you correct this oversight for all the non-believers?
Killing (without a trial), sure. Indefinitely detaining (without a trial), sure. Stalking to the ends of the Earth and forcing them to seek political asylum with countries not really known for their own human rights records, sure.
But torturing? Goodness no! How barbaric!
Are we not allowed to think all of those are terrible, or do you just take exception to people thinking torture is a special kind of evil on par with rape?
[I]t's usually more fun, and i don't get the feeling there's a band of people running around deleting the stuff i'm interested in.
Then do NOT ever visit the forums, especially through a discussion link at the top of a page. There's not as much territorial behavior of TVTropes, but there are a good number of "serious business" people in the background, and you do not want to see the sausage getting made.
To make the claim that linux has been never been intentionally weakened in security, you need to know that every single security vulnerability in Linux (to take one example) was due to carelessness, not intended action.
Certainly - some classes of backdoor are trivially obvious 'if(sourceip==NSA)' - but others can be subtle logic errors.
Personally, I'm not longer all that impressed by the IOCCC. Don't get me wrong, some of the code submitted there shows utterly insane levels of skill. However, the above is an excellent example of a good submission for the Underhanded C Contest, which is an excellent teaching tool for discovering exploits as well as for learning about subtle bugs that may drive you utterly mad trying to find.
No, some people just have a difference in hair color between the head and parts of the body. It's just most prominent on men's beards, since it's on full-display right next to the head, and most men don't dye their hair except to hide gray hairs.
Women have this issue too, but it gets obscured by the greater use of hair dye by women and the general lack of beards. Most people assume that a woman with mismatched hair colors just dyed it.
Using one's own cells to generate new follicles is useful because hair color and thickness will match perfectly with the rest of someone's head of hairs.
Assuming that you take samples from the same area, I'd guess. After all, a good number of people have very different hair color and thickness at different parts of the body, like men with dark hair and reddish beards. Do we actually know what controls that?
A large portion of North America last March and April were unseasonably cold. Where I live, we had 20 days in April with snowcover on the ground (the first 8 being some of the days without snow). It was unprecedented weather for that time of year (i.e. unseen in my lifetime). The icing out out lakes in the area set records or were close to the records for lateness.
Where in North America do you live? I ask, because according to NOAA, you only saw colder temperatures along the west coast in March, whereas the midwest saw temperatures up to 15 F higher than average, making it the warmest March on record since 1895. We also saw lower than average snow fall west of the Mississippi in April. There was a late-season snowstorm in the Appalachians in April 2012 though, but despite this, it was the third warmest April on record, nationally.
I am not disagreeing with global warming or that it can cause anomalous patters in weather. But all predictions and forecasts were opposite to what actually happened. This can not be waved away by your two points.
Then let's provide more data! After all, North America isn't the whole planet, and in March 2012, Europe also had one of its warmest Marches on record, Australia had record rainfalls, and the Greenland ice sheet had it's ninth lowest sea ice extent on record. (On the other hand, the Antarctic had one of its 4th largest.) Averaging over the globe, it was the 16th warmest March on record.
April, on the other hand, turned remarkably chilly in Europe, making it one of the coldest on record in several countries, and the Greenland sea ice "rebounded" to become one of the greatest since 2001 (still 1.8% lower than the 1979-2001 average). Globally, this was still 0.65 C over the historical average, and ocean temperatures were the 11th warmest on record for April.
Overall, 2012 was about the 8th or 9th warmest year on record. I find it amusing that you cite regional weather for one or two months in one part of the world as evidence that the whole world isn't warming and chide the GP for only providing "two points."
Or just another case for Slashdot to compare the US to those more forward thinking awesome European cities?
You know, if you click on the "articulated cars" Wikipedia link above, one of the images visible from the top of the page is one of similar cars in Portland, Oregon. I've ridden them, and they're pretty neat the first few times when one takes a turn. Plenty of US cities already have them, but they're an interesting solution to an old design issue, and it's always nice to highlight good engineering.
It's a better read anyway than someone whining about news they don't like appealing to other nerds while showing off a massive inferiority complex about America.
Tell you what -- why don't you apply that at home? Pay 10% less for food. Pay 10% less for clothes. Pay 10% less for luxuries.
Pay 10% less for your rent. Pay 10% less for your utilities. Pay 10% less for your loans. If you get injured, offer to pay your doctor only 90% of the bill. Do it right now, and don't incur any additional expenses in reducing these costs, because that comes out of your total budget too.
It turns out that many government agencies & programs are not only running right at the red line but are actually underfunded. Also, there is often a cost associated with not paying something that makes it more expensive than just paying it. 10% across the board cuts are the kind of thing that sound nice when you're just talking numbers, but there are people and contracts and obligations and Congressional mandates that aren't so easily cut.
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Apple has no reason to censor anything, there's lots of complaints on the forums already
And yet they do it. Frequently. Here's a few more examples.
I'm pretty sure humans ate snakes more often than the other way around...
I'm pretty sure the evolutionary time period in question was far before apes, much less hominids, came into the picture. We carry around a lot of baggage that isn't relevant to modern humans because they were relevant to our ancestors, and there hasn't been enough evolutionary advantage in losing them. Goose bumps, for example, have a role in helping furred animals stay warm, but they do nothing for us, despite them triggering when we're cold.
What software company is still actively supporting products from 2003?
Most of the ones I've worked for support 10+ years old versions with regular patches and updates. Our software wasn't marketed towards the consumer market, and all of these companies relied on support contracts for their revenue, but it's worth noting that the entire software industry isn't video games and internet apps.
for example, child molesters and rapists and murderers get out of prison and commit their crimes again. thousands of times.
Do you have statistics to back that up, or are you just consulting your gut on that one?
putting down a monster is not barbaric, it is the merciful thing to do
The ability to consider another human being as less than yourself is the first step in being willing to commit violence or any other number of crimes against them. You thirst for the blood of those you consider evil is little different from that of the very people you condemn.
Strange how much effort we put into trying to relieve the guilt of those carrying out the murderous orders of the state.
(Note: I am anti-death penalty. The following is not support for the death penalty.)
We, as a society, have decided that the death penalty serves an important societal purpose -- that is it a just act. Why would we choose to punish the people who are carrying out what we, as a society, have decided is justice?
Law enforcement is made up of people too, and if the burden of taking a life in a justified manner can be lightened, it should. To do otherwise is to promote PTSD and a life of misery among people who are just trying to protect the public. This is true of executioners, just as it is true of soldiers and of police thrust into dangerous situations.
Perjury can only be prosecuted by the state. Also, look up the plain view doctrine.
Every safety expert will tell you that the NUMBER ONE cause of whole classes of accidents is poor illumination.
No they won't. According to the US's NHTSA, the top cause of accidents is inattention. Nearly 41% of accidents involved distraction within 3 seconds of the accident. 71% of accidents occur during the day. Night driving in dark, unlit conditions accounts for only 12% of accidents.
So, unless "whole classes of accidents" means "just the ones with poor illumination," your statement is unlikely to be meaningfully true.
LEDs are worse, vastly worse. They are NOT bright. They get VERY hot if they are high powered. And the light they put out is of the very WORST kind, when the needs of the Human eye are taken into account. The Human eye HATES light composed from extremely narrow bandwidths.
Citation needed.
And when Team Soros/Blair/.Obama tell you...
Yeah, yeah. And tell us what the lizard jews running Zurich want the Illuminati to do next.
They even have a month of something they call "summer".
I thought the seasons were Cold & Wet, Cold & Dry, Cold & Wet 2: Electric Boogaloo, and Bugs.
There is also a social cost that is not calculable to allowing them to live, possibly escape and kill again, or just kill again in prison.
Which must also be balanced against the social cost of killing innocent people who were wrongfully convicted.
It's also worth noting that the homicide rate in prison is much lower than in the general populace. The prison murder rate is about 3 in 100,000 per year, and the general population is at about 4.7 in 100,000 per year. You are 20X safer from murder in prison than you are in Flint, Michigan (64.9 per 100,000).
(Numbers in the article from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.)
One of these sets of numbers is smaller than the other. Determing which is left as an exercise for the reader.
One of these sets of numbers is missing a whole host of related costs: i.e. the lengthy appeals process that almost all prisoners subject to the death penalty attempt, staff costs, amortized costs of fixed capital like the electric chair itself.
This is why the last time that someone was killed by firing squad in the US, the execution alone cost $165,000 -- well over the mere $5 you quote. Utah estimates that it costs them $1.6 million more to execute a prisoner than to hold them for life without parole.
Not only do you drastically underestimate the cost of the death penalty, but you also drastically overestimate the cost of life without parole (LWOP). California spends an average of $47,000 per prisoner/year. Texas is even cheaper at about $17,000 per prisoner. Neither is anywhere near $200,000.
I lifer is a danger to every guard and inmate they come into contact with. The number of guards and other inmates killed by lifers far outweigh the few innocent suspects killed by the system.
And I of course believe that you have statistics to back this up. Surely the lack of a good link was merely an oversight and not evidence that you were talking completely out of your rear end.
If you don't mind, would you correct this oversight for all the non-believers?
Apparently, 1/250,000th of one.
Killing (without a trial), sure. Indefinitely detaining (without a trial), sure. Stalking to the ends of the Earth and forcing them to seek political asylum with countries not really known for their own human rights records, sure.
But torturing? Goodness no! How barbaric!
Are we not allowed to think all of those are terrible, or do you just take exception to people thinking torture is a special kind of evil on par with rape?
I'm guessing you only wear pairs of pants and listen to MP3 files.
Languages shorten common phrases. Get used to it.
The Trauma Center series for DS? (If you ignore the weird plot and time-slowing mechanic.)
If you travel for light years at the speed of light, then from your perspective as passenger it still takes years.
Whose years? After all, you can travel for years from the perspective of the people left behind and a short time from your own.
Why would you assume the one that would make the author wrong instead of the one that would make him right?
[I]t's usually more fun, and i don't get the feeling there's a band of people running around deleting the stuff i'm interested in.
Then do NOT ever visit the forums, especially through a discussion link at the top of a page. There's not as much territorial behavior of TVTropes, but there are a good number of "serious business" people in the background, and you do not want to see the sausage getting made.
Not one person has proposed a solution, because such solutions are almost exclusively of the "elegant, simple and wrong" variety.
There isn't a neat solution, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a problem or that people have no right to complain.
Voyager 1 isn't in space yet.
"Interstellar space," I hope you mean, and there's a lot of people who believe that it has at this point.
To make the claim that linux has been never been intentionally weakened in security, you need to know that every single security vulnerability in Linux (to take one example) was due to carelessness, not intended action.
Certainly - some classes of backdoor are trivially obvious 'if(sourceip==NSA)' - but others can be subtle logic errors.
You mean like this attempt in 2003?
Personally, I'm not longer all that impressed by the IOCCC. Don't get me wrong, some of the code submitted there shows utterly insane levels of skill. However, the above is an excellent example of a good submission for the Underhanded C Contest, which is an excellent teaching tool for discovering exploits as well as for learning about subtle bugs that may drive you utterly mad trying to find.
No, some people just have a difference in hair color between the head and parts of the body. It's just most prominent on men's beards, since it's on full-display right next to the head, and most men don't dye their hair except to hide gray hairs.
Women have this issue too, but it gets obscured by the greater use of hair dye by women and the general lack of beards. Most people assume that a woman with mismatched hair colors just dyed it.
Using one's own cells to generate new follicles is useful because hair color and thickness will match perfectly with the rest of someone's head of hairs.
Assuming that you take samples from the same area, I'd guess. After all, a good number of people have very different hair color and thickness at different parts of the body, like men with dark hair and reddish beards. Do we actually know what controls that?
A large portion of North America last March and April were unseasonably cold. Where I live, we had 20 days in April with snowcover on the ground (the first 8 being some of the days without snow). It was unprecedented weather for that time of year (i.e. unseen in my lifetime). The icing out out lakes in the area set records or were close to the records for lateness.
Where in North America do you live? I ask, because according to NOAA, you only saw colder temperatures along the west coast in March, whereas the midwest saw temperatures up to 15 F higher than average, making it the warmest March on record since 1895. We also saw lower than average snow fall west of the Mississippi in April. There was a late-season snowstorm in the Appalachians in April 2012 though, but despite this, it was the third warmest April on record, nationally.
I am not disagreeing with global warming or that it can cause anomalous patters in weather. But all predictions and forecasts were opposite to what actually happened. This can not be waved away by your two points.
Then let's provide more data! After all, North America isn't the whole planet, and in March 2012, Europe also had one of its warmest Marches on record, Australia had record rainfalls, and the Greenland ice sheet had it's ninth lowest sea ice extent on record. (On the other hand, the Antarctic had one of its 4th largest.) Averaging over the globe, it was the 16th warmest March on record.
April, on the other hand, turned remarkably chilly in Europe, making it one of the coldest on record in several countries, and the Greenland sea ice "rebounded" to become one of the greatest since 2001 (still 1.8% lower than the 1979-2001 average). Globally, this was still 0.65 C over the historical average, and ocean temperatures were the 11th warmest on record for April.
Overall, 2012 was about the 8th or 9th warmest year on record. I find it amusing that you cite regional weather for one or two months in one part of the world as evidence that the whole world isn't warming and chide the GP for only providing "two points."
Or just another case for Slashdot to compare the US to those more forward thinking awesome European cities?
You know, if you click on the "articulated cars" Wikipedia link above, one of the images visible from the top of the page is one of similar cars in Portland, Oregon. I've ridden them, and they're pretty neat the first few times when one takes a turn. Plenty of US cities already have them, but they're an interesting solution to an old design issue, and it's always nice to highlight good engineering.
It's a better read anyway than someone whining about news they don't like appealing to other nerds while showing off a massive inferiority complex about America.
All budgets get cut, 10%, off the top.
Tell you what -- why don't you apply that at home? Pay 10% less for food. Pay 10% less for clothes. Pay 10% less for luxuries.
Pay 10% less for your rent. Pay 10% less for your utilities. Pay 10% less for your loans. If you get injured, offer to pay your doctor only 90% of the bill. Do it right now, and don't incur any additional expenses in reducing these costs, because that comes out of your total budget too.
It turns out that many government agencies & programs are not only running right at the red line but are actually underfunded. Also, there is often a cost associated with not paying something that makes it more expensive than just paying it. 10% across the board cuts are the kind of thing that sound nice when you're just talking numbers, but there are people and contracts and obligations and Congressional mandates that aren't so easily cut.